Galatians Discussion Questions
Part 5: Good News
Pastor Rick Henderson March 15-16, 2025
The study guide is designed for your individual use throughout the week to get you thinking about the Bible passage and offers ideas for spiritual practices you might consider trying. These discussion questions are designed to help you further process aspects of the passage, as presented in the sermon, with your group.
Week 5 Small Group Discussion – Galatians 4:1–20
- Read through Galatians 4:1–20 (We’re out of sync with the study guide again this week – the sermon plan changed after the guide was printed.)
- In the sermon, there was a question posed but rejected because both options are outside of the gospel: “Thinking of those you dearly love, would you rather they live under religious legalism OR live as if there is no God?” DON’T answer that question, but instead answer this one: “If your loved one was stuck in legalism or living as if there is no God, what would you want them to discover?”
- Pastor Rick encouraged us to continually ask ourselves two questions that will keep us on the rails of living out our faith expressed through love:
- “What does it look like to follow Jesus in _________” (insert any/every aspect of life)
- “What does love require of me?”
Discuss these questions and how they could help you in a situation you’re currently navigating.
- Do you have experience with adoption? How does the reference to adoption in Gal 4:4–7 help you to understand, as a follower of Jesus, how God sees you, provides for you, is committed to you, will bless you? What does this stir in your heart?
- Verse 17 warns us to be on the watch for people who seek to win us over to a way of thinking that is not gospel-thinking. Pastor Rick encouraged us to apply wisdom in discerning when people are using us for their own selfish purposes and want things from us rather than for How do you discern this slippery dynamic?
- What else from this weekend’s sermon or study guide content do you want to discuss?
- What would you like your group to be praying for over the coming week?